Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Thursday News Roundup

- Bowens has launched a new ringflash system that will bring affordable ring lighting solutions to photographers in an affordable solution. To see more information, check out the story over at Digital Photography Now.

- The folks over at DxO are looking to make your cellphone camera images better. DxO Labs have announced three new products which help overcome the limitations of ever shrinking pixels used in high resolution, small form factor camera modules. DxO’s technologies offer enhanced depth of field or EDoF, with industry-best image processing technology, including anti-aliasing demosaicing, sensor and pixel level noise compensation and DSC-class auto exposure and auto white balance. The solutions are available for immediate integration into customer chip designs. More information on the solutions can be found at http://www.dxo.com/intl/embedded_imaging.

- From John Nack on Adobe: folks printing from Photoshop on the Mac: Epson has posted an FAQ and schedule for compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard. As always, it's a great idea to make sure you're using the latest driver for your hardware/OS combo.

- If you have been waiting for the new Canon Mark III, wait no longer. Canon is scheduled to start shipping the new Eos 1Ds to the United States starting this week. All shipping 1Ds Mark III bodies are supposed to contain the redesigned sub-mirror mechanism already announced for the Eos 1D Mark III. Canon has also released a new firmware update for the Eos 1D Mark III. The update takes care of the following issues: Increases transmission speed when using high-speed SD cards, fixes a phenomenon involving not being able to release the shutter, improves AF tracking in specific conditions, and corrects errors in the Spanish and Korean menu screens. The update is available here.

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